Upscaling? Probably not what you wanted to hear bearing in mind that older titles haven't aged well visually, and a disappointing result bearing in mind that our initial information said that Sony would be emulating these titles in high definition.

And finally, all in-game button prompts relate to the PS2's controller - nothing has been changed at all, effectively ruling out a remaster.

Thirdly, the classic PlayStation 2 logo appears in all of its poorly upscaled glory when you boot each title. Secondly, just like the PS2 emulator on PlayStation 3, there's an emulation system in place for handling PS2 memory cards. Third party game developers cannot access the system OS in this manner. How can we tell? First of all, a system prompt appears telling you that select and start buttons are mapped to the left and right sides of the Dual Shock 4's trackpad. You'll note that three of those titles hail from the PlayStation 2 era, and after we downloaded them, it became clear that all of them are running under emulation. All four titles are supplied via a single PSN code, as opposed to a physical disc included with the hardware. A new PS4 Star Wars bundle has been released, including a package of four 'classic' franchise titles: Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Racer Revenge and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. Since then, the only hints at its existence came in the form of some telling PEGI game ratings, along with some sightings of PS2 classics appearing in shared media lists during the PS4 firmware 3.0 beta phase.Īs it happens, the PlayStation 4's PS2 emulator is now available, released with no fanfare whatsoever. The company originally informed developers of the existence of the emulator at the same time it briefed them on the planned rollout for the PlayStation Now cloud service, way back in January 2014. It's been so long in fact, that we began to wonder whether Sony had shelved the project. Original story: It's been a long time since we first reported that classic PS1 and PS2 titles were heading to PlayStation 4, running under emulation. 'We have nothing further to comment at this point in time.' 'We are working on utilising PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2 games forward to the current generation,' Sony told Wired. UPDATE 20/11/15 8:41am: Overnight, Sony has confirmed PlayStation 2 emulation for PS4, but is remaining tight-lipped on its plans for the project. UPDATE 21/11/15 11:38am: Just how much faster is the PS2 emulator compared to original hardware? We've just posted this extensive analysis using the three games we have available.

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